Comparison

Writing Wizard vs Handwriting Tracing Practice

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Writing Wizard

This app helps children learn to trace letters, numbers, and words with a fun, motivating system. It offers customizable tracing practice, interactive games, and progress reports for parents and educators.

Highlights
  • Trace letters, numbers, and words
  • Customizable tracing practice
  • Interactive games and animated stickers
  • Create custom word lists with audio
  • Progress reports for tracking
  • Printable PDF worksheets
Features
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"Fantastic, customizable tracing practice with fun rewards." 5 Stars - Common Sense Media 500,000+ units sold (including 300,000+ to schools) ! Writing Wizard is designed to help every child learn how to trace letters, numbers, and words through a fun system carefully designed to maintain motivation. • Show and enforce how to trace letters correctly • Letter names and phonics (customizable) • 16 Fonts available (including 3 most popular in the US) • Fun tracing using 50+ animated stickers, sound effects and interactive games that animate letters at the end of tracing • Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, and words • Ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word) • Fully customizable to suit every child’s needs (letter size, difficulty,...) • Check progress thanks to reports that display what the child has traced • Shapes tracing activity for toddlers • Create PDF Worksheets and print them to help your child to write on paper • Use Apple pencil to write at a very small size All the shapes, the first 7 letters, numbers, and words are free. The remaining letters and the ability to add your own words can be unlocked with a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription. _______ ACCOLADES • "Writing Wizard is the most complete and intelligent letter tracing app we’ve seen"" AppoLearning.com • "This brand-new app should be the go-to for every parent, teacher and therapist to work on handwriting" - TOP PICKS - 5 stars - SmartAppsForKids.com • "Writing Wizard by L’Escapadou is everything a parent wants in a handwriting app, and more." 5/5 - kids-app-reviews.com • "L’Escapadou has made handwriting fun." AppyMall.com 5/5 • Listed in "20 best educational iPhone and iPad apps for kids of 2013" - appsplayground.com • Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - Children's Technology Review _______ PERFECT FOR KIDS Kids want to have fun, and Writing Wizard offers a lot of fun to keep them motivated in the learning process! • They can trace using 50+ animated stickers and sound effects • Once tracing is complete, they can interact with them on 4 games that animate letters • They can trace any word - like their name - and record their voice for each word • They can collect stars in 5-Stars play mode _______ PERFECT FOR PARENTS & TEACHERS • Ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word) • Detailed reports provide information on what kids have done, including the ability to replay and export the tracings to view kids' progress • Share word lists via iCloud Drive or other cloud providers, adhoc network, or email • Multiple parameters to customize the app according to the child’s current education level (e.g. letter size, difficulty, show/hide model, allow to stop between key points, etc.) • 3 most popular fonts in the US (ZB, DN & HWT) and 13 international fonts (UK, Scandinavia, Australia, Germany and France) • Upper and lower case letters, numbers (and word lists) • Letter names and letter sounds (which can be customized) • A customizable 5-Stars play mode prompting the child to trace a letter or a word 5 times using different parameters (each step is more challenging) • Create an unlimited number of users • Many settings to customize the app (sound, game time limit, black background,...) • In the A-Z section, special graphics available to match letters (e.g. ant graphic for A/a) _______ Privacy Policy KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE As a Moms with Apps member, we follow the "Know what's inside" best practices for kids’ apps L’Escapadou takes children’s privacy seriously. We believe you should not have to worry about your kids being tracked by apps or websites. This app: • Does not collect any user information (we do not use data collection tools) • External Links : Before accessing a parent section, an operation must be solved so that young kids cannot access it. Terms of use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Handwriting Tracing Practice

This app helps children learn and practice writing cursive and block letters. It offers interactive tracing, letter animations, and voice input/output for a fun, educational experience. Includes a memory game and customizable fonts.

Highlights
  • Cursive and block letter tracing
  • Letter writing animations
  • Voice input and text-to-speech
  • Memory game (Pairs)
  • Multiple cursive and block fonts
  • Text export to PDF
Features
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Is your child starting school and learning to write? Handwriting Tracing Practice helps children aged 6–8 master cursive and printed letters step by step — with the exact fonts used in schools. Children learn independently, at their own pace, using voice controls designed for little hands that can't type yet. No ads. No data collected. Safe for children. The app has three sections: Letters Browse cursive and printed letters and find any letter by voice. See all four forms at once — uppercase cursive, lowercase cursive, uppercase print, lowercase print. Play the writing animation to learn the correct stroke order. Then trace it yourself — move the virtual pen along the letter's lines to practise proper technique. Each letter plays its sound too, so children connect the shape with the phonics. Pairs The classic card-matching game — now with letters! Find pairs of identical letter cards against the clock. Choose whether to match lowercase with uppercase, or same-case pairs. Pick cursive or printed cards and set the difficulty by the number of cards. Learning letters has never felt more like play. Texts (SK/CZ Cursive font) Type or speak any text — it appears instantly in cursive handwriting. Listen to it read aloud. Play the Telephone game together: one person speaks a sentence, the other listens back and compares. Export your text as a cursive PDF, print it out, or send it as a handwritten letter to grandma. Available fonts in Settings: Cursive: D'Nealian · Handwriting Without Tears · Zaner Bloser · UK Cursive · SK/CZ Cursive Print: Manuscript · SK/CZ Print Download free and start exploring the world of handwriting today!

Screenshots

Writing Wizard4 screens
Handwriting Tracing Practice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Handwriting Tracing Practice at weekly against Writing Wizard's every 4 months. Handwriting Tracing Practice also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Writing Wizard's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (5K vs 50). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Writing Wizard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Handwriting Tracing Practice sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Writing Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 5K ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Writing Wizard ships an update every 4 months, Handwriting Tracing Practice weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Writing Wizard versus Handwriting Tracing Practice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWriting WizardHandwriting Tracing Practice
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (5K ratings) — better4.0 (50 ratings)
Positive reviews73.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings5K — better50
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPierre AbelVladimir Zavada

Customer experience

Writing Wizard

All ratings5,039 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral6.2%
Negative9.6%
Written reviews206 reviews
Positive73.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative19.9%

Handwriting Tracing Practice

All ratings46 ratings
Positive69.6%
Neutral10.9%
Negative19.6%

Bugs and requests

Writing Wizard

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to access locked features
  • Purchased content not unlocking properly
  • Inconsistent letter formation guidance

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more letters, numbers, and shapes
  • Allow recording of custom voice instructions
  • Improve compatibility with stylus/digital pens
  • Provide more customization options

Handwriting Tracing Practice

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Writing Wizard

Subscriptions1
  • Full Access - Monthly$2.491 Month
One-time3
  • All Letters and Numbers$5.99
  • Add Your Words and Word Lists$5.99
  • Lifetime Full Access$9.99
3 purchases

Handwriting Tracing Practice

One-time3
  • Entry functions$3.99
  • Advanced functions$4.99
  • Premium functions$6.99

Questions

Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Handwriting Tracing Practice free?
Handwriting Tracing Practice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Writing Wizard or Handwriting Tracing Practice?
Writing Wizard is rated higher. Writing Wizard averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5K ratings, while Handwriting Tracing Practice averages 4.0 from 50 ratings.
Do Writing Wizard or Handwriting Tracing Practice have ads?
Neither Writing Wizard nor Handwriting Tracing Practice shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Writing Wizard or Handwriting Tracing Practice?
Writing Wizard ships an update every 4 months, and Handwriting Tracing Practice weekly. Most recently, Writing Wizard was updated on September 25, 2026 and Handwriting Tracing Practice on September 10, 2026.

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